Madonna and Child and the Young St. John, mid or late 16th century

  • Jacopo Sansovino, Italian, 1486-1570
  • Antonio Calcagni, Italian, 1536 - 1593

Terracotta with polychromy and gilding

  • Overall: 15 15/16 × 8 7/8 × 9 1/2 inches (40.5 × 22.5 × 24.1 cm)

Gift of Rene Gimpel

25.25

(Rene Gimpel [1881-1945], Paris, France)

1925-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Valentiner, W.R. "Two Italian Renaissance statues," Bulletin of the DIA 6, no. 8 (1925): pp. 82-83 (ill.). Darr, A. P., P. Barnet, A. Boström, with contributions by C. Avery... [et. al.]. Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts. London: Harvey Miller Publishers, in assoc. with the Detroit Institute of Arts, 2002, 2 vols., I, cat. 123.

school of Jacopo Sansovino; possibly Antonio Calcagni, Madonna and Child and the Young St. John, mid or late 16th century, terracotta with polychromy and gilding. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Rene Gimpel, 25.25.